Contents
What Are Business Requirements?
What Makes a Business Requirement Good?
The Requirements-Gathering Process
Chapter 1: What Is the XCellR8™ Approach?
Chapter 2: The XCellR8™ Approach: Identifying Business Events
Using Business Rules to Find Events
Case Study: Business Events for a Portfolio Management Project
Chapter 3: The XCellR8™ Approach: The Event Process Model
Parts of the Event Process Model
Exercise: Creating Event Process Models for an Internal Technical Support System
Event Process Models in Everyday Situations
Creating Event Process Models for a Simple Purchase Order System
Chapter 4: The XCellR8™ Approach:
The Event Entity Relationship Diagram and Data Attribution
The Event Entity Relationship Diagram
Creating an Event Entity Relationship Diagram
Chapter 5: Putting It All Together
What Is a Requirements Session?
Preparing for a Requirements Session
Conducting the Requirements Session
The Business Requirements Document
Chapter 6: The Life Cycle of an Object
Using an Object Life Cycle Matrix
Chapter 7: The XCellR8™ Approach: Completeness Tests
Completeness of a Business Event
Is Your Event Process Description Complete?
Completeness of Business Requirements
Chapter 8: The XCellR8™ Approach: The Big Picture
How Business Events and Use Cases Relate to One Another
Requirements Elicitation in a Use Case Structure
The Test Specification Document
Chapter 11: Business Requirements Traceability
Traceability to an Original Business Requirement
Chapter 12: Applying the XCellR8™ Approach